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VOLUME VIII•
NOTICE.
At a Meeting of the Board of Managers of
the •Northampton Water Company,' held
at the office, of the Secretary, on the 22d
dny of March, the following resolution
was passed.
• Resolved.—That the President of the
Board of Managers, be authorized to call a
meting of the stockholders of the "North
ampton Water Company, to be held at the
house of J. W. Eshbach, on the 15th day
of April next, at 1 o'clock P. M., for the pur
pose of discussing the propriety of liquida
ting' the funded debt of the company, and
the enlargement of the works by issuing of
prefered stock.
From the 71111111teR,
Jcs. WEAVER, President
ATTEST.— ff. 11. Blamer, Sect'ry,
March 29
Northampt. Water Company.
All persons using the water of the Com
pany for family or other purposes, will,
please take notice, thnt the time to renew
their permits is the first of April next, and
it is expected .that they will cull upon the
undersigned Treasurer and renew their per
mits. Those persons who have not settled
for their permits from the Ist to the 10th of
April, must not complain if the water is stop
ped from theM after thatgine.
The Board reserves the right where the
Water is used by joint I lydrants, if not paid
by all joined, to stop it if they see proper,
as they consider such arrangements solely
advantageous to those who connect in use
ing the Water, consequently cannot interfere
with arrangements of this kind.
Notice is also given to persons who wish
to use Hydrant Water for building purpo
ses, that they must take out their permits
before they commence building, and if this
rule is not strictly observed the charge will
be double for the Water.
By Order of the Board,.
-TWIN J. ICaArse, Treasurer.
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March 15
Cemetery Notice.
In accordance with a resolution passed by
the new Cemetery Association of Allentown
Notice is hereby given, that the Books of
subscription will be closed on the 7th day of
April nex:. All persons, therefore, who wish
to subscribe for lots at the present price,
Must do so before that date. Subscriptions
will be taken up to that time by Lewis
Schmidt, Treasurer, or either of the under
signed.
_
1 ..
JOSEHH WEAVER,
c ? •
JOHN Cr SCHERPH, ZS
B. S. HAGENBUCH, ..1
EDWARD BECK, I n:
J , n
CHARLES GROSS, r.
Allentown, March 29, ¶-2w
Store Stand for Rent.
• 4C: The Store Stand at the
tit.. south-west corner of Hamilton
and Sixth streets, is offered for
rent. Possession given on the first day of
April next. It is one of the best business
stands in Allentown, and the building is
Commodious and conveniently arranged
Apply on the premises, to
SOLOMON GANGWERE.
Allentown, Jan. 4, 1854.
20,000 Apple Trees (*or Sale,
The Trees are all of extra size and quali
ty, warranted true to thu name, with a gen
eral assortment of all sorts of
is
). FRUIT TREES
47'
Grapt-iyines, Gooseber:
ries, Raspberries, Straw
berries, of the best selections, ripening. in
succession front the earliest to the latest.
Also-Ornamental Trees, Evergreens,
qt.c.i . suitable fOr ornamenting public and
private
,grounds.
Orders sent direct to the "Fair View Nur
ccry," MooreStown, New. Jersey, or left with
John. F. Halbach, Esq., authorized Agent . in
Allentown, Pa., will receive prompt atten
tion.
Reference.—George Butz, Philadelphia
JOIIN PERKINS, Proprietor.
relguary 15, 1854. • .• *-4w
110VILCOlil0
Notice is hereby •given, that the under
signed have taken out letters of Administra
tors, in the Estate of the late Stephen But
litt, Esq., dec'd. Therefore all those who
are indebted to said estate be, it in Notes,
Bonds, Book Debts, or otherwise in Lehigh
county, shall make payment to .attron Bat
tier, at the "Lehigh Purnace," in Wash
ington township, and those who are indebted
to said estate in Carbon county, to John B,al
iiet, at East Penri. Such, also who have ;.
any,. legal claims againstsaid estate shall pre
sent,thcm well authenticated to said A dmin-
IBWHOLS . within •six weeks from the date
hereof.' .. . ,
1
AARON BALLIET, ;t •
of Lehigh County. .0.
JOHN EALLIET, of
Carbon County. 0 .
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March 29
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A FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
Who shall judge a man from manners
Who shall know him by his dress?
Paupers may be fit for princes,
Princes fit for something less.
Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket,
May beclothe the golden ore,
Of the deepest thoughts and feelings—
Satin vest could do no more.
There are springs of crystal nectar
Ever swelling out of stone,
There are purple buds and golden,
Hidden crushed and overgrown,
God, who counts by souls, not dresses,
Loves and prospers you and me,
While he values thrones, the highest,
But as pebbles in the sea
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Man unpraised above his fellows,
Oft forgets his fellow, then ;
Masters—rulers—lords—remember
Thai your meanest hands are men!
Men by labor, men by feeling,
Men by thought and men by fame,
Claiming equal rights to sunshine
In a man's ennobled name.
There are loam embroidered oceans ;
There.are little weed•clad rills,
There are little inch•high saplings,
There are cedars on the hills.
But God, who counts by souls not stations,
Loves and prospers you and me,
For to him all vain distinctions
Are as pebbles in the sea.
Toiling hands alone are builders
Of a nation's wealth and fame;
Titled laziness is peUsioned,
Fed and fattened on the same.
By the sweat of other's foreheads,
Living only to rejoice,
While the poor man's outraged fieedom
Vainly lifted; up its voice.
But truth and justice are eternal,
Born with loveliness and light,
And sunset's wrongs shall never prospei,
While there is a sunny right;
And God, whose world-heard voice is singing,
Boundless love to you and me,
Will sink oppression with its titles,
As the pebbles in the sea.
111iaceUattcutt
zetectious.
Brooks, who lived in Robinson county,
North Carolina, wanted to buy a tract of
land near him, and concluded to despatch
one Angus NlcAlpin to Charleston, South
Carolina, to buy it from the owner, who liv
ed there. Angus started off, and in due time
Brooks would take his seat and look down
the road, in •the hope of seeing his agent re ,
turning. At last he appeared, and the mo
ment he neared the house, Brooks accosted
hi tn
"Well Mac, have you got the land
The agent, in whose face was anything
but sunshine, replied somewhat gruffly, that
the might let him g et down froM his horse,
before he put at him the question of busi
ness.'
.Did you get it ?'
•Pshaw, now, Brooks, don't press upon
a body in that uncivil way. It's a long sto
ry, and I must have time.
Brooks still urged, - and Mac still. parried
the question till he got into the house.
'Now, surely,' thought Brooks, 'he will
tell me.' But Mac was not quite ready.
'Brooks,' said he, 'have you anything to
drink V
To be sure I have,' said the other, and
immediately had some of the best forthcom
ing.
Having moistened his clay, Mac took a
seat, and his employer another. Mac gave
a preliminary'hem.' He then turned sud
denly around to Brooks, looked him straight
in the eyes, and slapped him 'on the thigh.
'Brooks,' says he, 'was you ever in
Charleston V
•Why, you know I never was,' replied'
the other.
'Well, then, Brooks,' says the agent,.you
ought to go there. The greatest place I
assure you upon the face of the earth !
They've got houses on both sides of. the
road, for five miles at a stretch, and d—d
the horse track the whole way through !
Brooks, I think I met five thousand people
in a minute, and not a chap would look at
me. They've got houses there no wheels.
Brooks, I saw one with six horses hitched
to it, and a big driver, with a long whip, go
ing it like a whirlwind. I followed,it down
the road for n mile and a half. 'and when I
stopped I looked, and what do you , thitik
.there.waa Nothing in it but one little wo
wan sitting , up,in,the corner. , •
, Well Brooke, 1 . tuynO,back up the road,
and as I was riding .along,,l sees'a fancy
looking chap with long, curly hair hanging
down hia back, and boots as . shiny as the
face of an up country nigger . r I called
him into the middle of the road and asked
him_rt.ciVil question, and a civil question;
you knOW, Brooks, calls for a civil answer,
Poetical Department.
Souls, Not Stations
Buying A. Farm.
it Ml=l
ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., APRIL 5. 1854.
all over the world. 'I say, stranger, can
you gill me where Col. Lamar lives ?' and
what do you think was the answer? .Go
to grass, you fool
'Well, Brooks, I knocks along up and
down, and about, until at last. I finds out
where Col. Lamar lives. 1 gets down and
bangs away at the door. Presently the
door was opened by as pretty fine 'spoken,
well dressed woman, as ever you seed in
your born days. Silks, silks there every
day, Brooks.
'Says I, 'Mrs. Lamar, I presume, ma
dam ?'
.1 am Mrs. Lamar, sir.'
Well, madame, says I, •I have come all
the way (rem North Carolina to see Col.
Lamar—to see about buying a tract of land
from him that's up in our parts.'
'Then, she says, 'Col. Lamar has rode
out in the country, but will be back shortly.
Come in sir, and wait awhile. I've no
doubt that the Col. will soon return,'--:and
she had a smile on that pretty face of her's
that reminded a body of a spring morning.
*Well, Brooks, I hitched my horse to a
brass thing on the door, and walked in.
'Well, when I got in I sees the floor all
covered with the nicest looking things! ni
cer than any patched worked bed-guilt you
ever seed in your life Brooks. I was try.
ing to edge along around it, but presently I
sees a nigger stepping right over it.—
Thinks I, if that nigger can go it, I can
go it too. So, right over it I goes,and takes
my seat right before a picture, which at first
I thought was a little man looking in at the
window.
'Well, Brooks, there I sot waiting and
waiting (or Col. Lamar, :and at last—he
didn't come, but they began to bring in din
ner. Thinks Ito myself, heie's a scrape.
But I made up my mind to tell her if she
asked me to eat—to tell her with a gentle
bow, that I had no occasion to eat. But
Brooks, she didn't ask me to eat—she asked
me to be so good as to carve that turkey for
her, and she did it with one of them lovely
smiles that makes the cold streaks run down
the small of a fellow's back.
'Certainly,, madam,' says I, and I walk
ed up to the table—there was on one side
of the turkey a great big knife, and a fork
with a trigger on the other side.
, Well, I - falls to work, and in the 'lest ef
fort I splashed the gravy about two yards
over the whitest table cloth you ever seed
in your life, Brooks. Well, I felt the steam
began to gather about my eves. But, I'm.
not a man to back out for trifles, so I makes
another effort, and the darned thing took
flight and lit in Mrs. Lamar's lap.
*Well, you see, Brooks, then I was taken
with a blindness, and the next thing I se
membered, I was upon the hatch a kicking.
Well, by this time I began to think of navi
gating. So I goes out and mounts Roseutn
and puts for North Carolina. Now Brooks,
you don't blame me? Do you ?'
A Youthful Robber Reclaimed.
Many a reader whose eye may rest on
these lines and who first sitw the "sweet
light" in Tennessee or Kentucky, will re
member the Rev. John Craig. This gentle
man was of the methodist persuasion, of the
original Asbury schocl . , and he, like most
others of that denomination at the time. to
which we allude, was noted alike for his
plainess of *dress, and a strict walk and re
proof of 'sin in what. form soever it makes
its appearance, and under any and all cir ,
cumstances.
Mr. Craig was one of the first preachers
to visit the section called Middle Tennessee,
now so populous and powerful, but then
(1801) a mere wilderness. He was an iti
nerant. His circuit extended from Powell's
Valley, east of the mountains,.in the extreme
western settlements on the Cumberland and
Duck Rivers. The settlements of which the
white men were 'few and far between :' no
public roads had been established—those.
distant neighborhoods were connected ' only
by faint truces, which were but seldom trav
eled.
Mr. C.• was exposed to many hardships.
He lay down on. hard beds, slept in open
cabins, and shared many a scanty repast.
But he was a man of energy, and his zeal
never fagged nor grew weary. Ho felt the
importance of his mission, and•urged on by
his zeal in his master's cause, and the good
of souls, ho waded snows and floods, braved
the fury of the winds, surniountekall diffi
culties, and carried the glad tidings of sal
vation to the new settlers.
The writer was burn in Middle Tennes-
See; and although a more child whed he laA
saw Mr. Cinig,.his image is as fresh in his
mind as the:events of yesterday. .
• In 18:10, Ittiv. Mr. C. came, late one even
ing, to my father's, and passed the night at
ourhouse. During the evening, after fami
ly prnyers had been offered by him, before
retiring' to bed, he gave to my father, in my
presence, a narrative, which was in sub
stance, the following i
Many years before, Mr. Craig, was pas- .
sing from East 'Tennessee, to the
,Puck ri!
ver country. His way led him along a dim
path through a mountain past, amid craggy
rocks, near awful precipices and frightful
chasms. Suddenly a young man sprang
from ahuge ref, and with a heavy rifle
presented at Mr. Craig, demanded is money
Mr. C. regarded the robber with a look
of discrimination peculiar to himself, ns lie
reined up his horse and said, "You man,
you never robbed before. What has brought
you to this ?"
The robber again demanded his money,
threatening instant death if the other did not
comply.
Mr. Craig, answered, "This is the first
attempt. You have been better raised !
Your mother—"
Instantly the young man dashed down his
gun and burst into tears, saving that indeed
he had been taught better things. And ho
cried most bitterly.
-
Mr. Craig, tied his horse to a limb, alight
ed and invited the trembling youth to be
seated near him on a flat rock. The young
man instantly complied, when Mr. Craig,
in a mild and engaging manner, asked him
how he had happened to become a robber.
The other told him that he had been rais
ed in Virginia—his parents were in easy
circumstances in life, and members of the
Presbyterian church—that they had educa
ted him religiously; and lavished on him all
the affections characteristic of parental love.
About eighteen months since, he had mar
ried again st their will, and with his young
and lovely wife, he had made his way into
this new' and unsettled country. Ills pa
rents had given him no assistance, and hav
ing but little on which to commence life,
and calling sick, without money, friends or
credit, both he and his wife had well nigh
starved. In the depths of his distress, he
had, as a last alternative, resolved to make
one robbery, only one, and afterwards live
honestly.
Mr. in the spirit of love, pointed
out his error. Ile told hien that he should
have gone to his heavenly Father, and
made known his wants—that his tender
mercies are over all his works, and none
that trust in Him shall ever want. The
young man was all tears—all penitence.
Mr. Craig arose, went to his horse,
and taking off his saddle-begs, said—"l too
am poor. I own no foot of land—no cot
tage in the wilderness is tnine. I have but
thirty-one dollars in the world, and reserv
ing one dollar only, in the name of the "(liv
er of all good, "I present you with thirty dol
lars. Take, take this little sum, as one sent
you from Heaven, and God and his angels
are witnesses that you promise amendment
in future life."
Mr. Craig then prayed with and for the
astonished young roan and took an affection
ate leave.
Thirty long years have elapsed. West
Tennessee is a wilderness no more. The
pale face . had felled the forest. The red
man had quited his hunting grounds, and
they were chequered a into a thousand
furrowed fields. Mr. Craig was now an
old man'. flis locks were white as wool.
His children and grand-children had grown
up around him, and children of his spirtual,
charge surrounded him, like waving wheat
heads in the harvest field.
One sunny eve in Autumn, •as the old
preacher sat in the midst of the family group,
it was told him that a gentleman was at the
gate who wished to speak with him. fle went
out, and saw an elderly man, neatly dressed,
riding a fine horse. The stranger asked for
accommodations for the night. This being
granted, he dismounted, and with Mr. Craig
he entered the house.
• Little beyond the common civilities of
life passed between them, until supper had
been served. The elder gentleman asked
\lr. Craig to show a private apartment, and
and when they we're alone said,
"Mr. Craig, I think that you do not know
121111
"1 do not," replied Mr. Craig.
"And yet I tried to rob you. lam that
same poor wretch, that demanded your mo
ney with a rifle presented at your bosom, 30
years agd, among the motintains.'•
"Is it possible ?" exclaimed the other.
"Yes," rejoined the first, I am the same.
I took the money you gave me home to my
poor starvin g wife, and told' her how I
ob
tained it. Wo counted it out on n wooden
Stool, and knelt down and covenanted with
Gad and each other, to live honestly in his
sight, and to walk uprightly before Ilim.
We have prospered. Want has long since
boon a stranger to us ; riches have flowed in
upon us, and our children and
.chihireit's
children have . risen up around us, to callus
blessed. We have years ago become mem
bers of the Church of Christ. I have long
and ardently desired to find you, but not
.knowing your name, I knew not how to
make inquiry. Last Sabbath, nt the camp
meeting, when you arose to preach, I at once
recognized in you the man that had saved
'me from a felon's fate. I then learned your
name, and now I have come to pay you
the thirty dollars with thirty years interest.'
"Cast thy bread upon the ,waters,. and.
thou shalt find it after many days."
Mr. Craig added, that the name he had
never mentionean connection with these
cireumstances;itor Woul4 . ,he ever..
"But," ho said, "I have since ivisited
them at their 'own' house, and found them
people of respectability, and refinement and
piety, and one son now occupies a high.
place both in Church and Statn..
The New Carpet!
"I can hardly spare it, Jeannette, but as
you have set your heart upon it, why, I sup
pose I must."
The young wife looked with rapture
upon the ten shining gold pieces.
"One hundred dollars," she said to her
self," how rich it makes me feel ! It seems
a great deal to pay for a carpet, but "gold's
worth is gold," the old saying is, and one
good purchase is. worth a dozen poor ones.
I'll buy one of the very finest Brussels."
Afternoon came: the rosy babe was laid
asleep in the cradle, and the little maid re
ceived a score of charges to linger by its side
every moment till the darling woke up.
Jeannette looked her prettiest, and, throwing
a mantilla over her handsome shoulders, was
just hurrving away, when a loud ring at
the door brought out n very pettish "Oh,
dear !" at the expected intrusion.
"Oh, Jeannette—dear Jeannette !" and a
pale young face sank panting on a solo.
"We are in trouble—such dreadful trouble !
Can you help us ? Do you think we could
borrow a hundred dollars from your husband?
Couldn't you get it for us, Jeannette? You
know you said I might always rely on you
when trial came, and Charles expects every
moment to have his little stock of goods at
tached, and he is so sickly !"
"Dear, dear!" said Jeannette, her good
heart suddenly contracting. "Edward told
me this morning not to ask him bratty more
money fur three months ; and she gathered
her purse up tightly in her handkerchief ;".
I'm sure if—l—only could oblige you, I
would; but, I suspect Edward is really hard
pushed. Can't you get it elsewhere ? Dave
you tried?"
"Yes," answered her friend desponding
ly, "I've tried everywhere. People know
that Charles is sick, and cannot repay im
mediately. Oh! it seems to me some credi
tors have such stony hearts ! Mr. J.—
knows just our circumstances, yet he in
sists upon that money. Oh ! it is hard !
It is so hard!"
Her pitiful voice, and the big tears run
ning like rain down her pallid cheeks, al
most unnerved Jelinnette's selfishness.
But the carpet—that beautiful carpet she
had promised herself so long, and so often
been disappointed of its possession, that she
could not give up. She knew her husband's
heart—and that he would urge her self-de
nial—no ; she would not see she
did it was all over with the carpet.
"Well," said her friend, in a desponding
voice, rising to go,"l'm sorry you can't help
me ; I know you would if you could. Good
morning. I hope you will never know
what it is to want and suffer."
Ilow handsome the new carpet looked, as
the sun streamed in on its wreathedo flowers,
its colors of fawn aml blue, and crimson, ims
soft velvet richness—and how proud felt
Mrs. Jeannette at the lavish praises of her
neighbors. It was a bargain, too ; she had
saved ten dollars in its purchase, and bought
a pair of elegant window shades.
"[ declare I" said her husband, " this
loods like comfort ; but it spoils all my plea
suire to think of Charly Somers. The poor
fellow is dead."
Jeannette gave a little sharp scream, and
the flush faded from her face.
"Yes, that rascally Jones ! For the pal
try sum of one hundred dollars, he attached
everything in the little shop, and was so in
sulting besides, that Charly, springing an
grily up in his bed, ruptured a blood' vessel,
and lived scarcely an hour afterward."
"And Vary 3"
...She has a dead child ; and her life is
despaired of. Why on earth didn't they send
to me. I could easily have spared the mo
ney. If it had stripped the of the last cent,
they should have had it. Poor fellow—.
poor Vary !"
'..And I might have'saved it—all," shriek
ed Jeannette, sinking on her knees upon the
rich carpet ' , Oh, Edward, will God for
give me for my heartlessness ? Mary did
call here, and with tears begged me to aid
her—and—l had the whole sum in my
band-and coldly turned her away: Oh,
my Uod ! forgive me."
In the agony of grief. Jeannette would re
ceive no comfort. In vain her husband
strove to soothe her ; she would not hear a
word in extenuation of her selfish conduct.
I shall never forget dear Alary's tears ;
I shall never forget her voice ; they will
haunt mo to my dying day. Oh, take it
away—that hateful carpet ; I purchusbd it
With the deatlrof my friend. Flow could I
be so cruel ?
Yenrs have passed away since then, and
Mary, with her husband, lie under • the
green sod of the church-yard. Jeannette
has grey hairs mixed with the bright brown
of her tresses, but she ' lives in a home• of
splendor, and none know her but to bless
her. There is a Mary, n gentle. Mary' in•
her household, dear to • her as her pwn sweet
childrcn,—she is,the orphan child of those•
whO have, rested Side by side for •ten long,
years. • '
Edward is rich, 'but prosperity has not
hardened his heart. His band never tires
of giving out God's bounty to God's poor.;,
and.Jeannettu is the gaurdian 'angel of the
needy. The "new care long since 614,-
NUMBER 27.
is sacredly preserved as a, memento of so
roomful but penitent hours, and many a We+
ry heart owes to its silent influence the pros
perity that has turned want's wilderness ia
to an Eden of plenty.—
Who are the ""Know-Nothings?"
The Delta (New Orleans) gives the fo.
lowing account of the new secret soviet
which appears to have originated in the cit
of New York, and to have first shown i
teeth at our last State election, but whit
has since extended itself through most
the cities and some of the principal village
of the
.Union. The Delta says, its adh•
tents in that city are variously estimated
five hundred to five thousand, but probabl
are not far from six hundred. • It proceeds
The objects of the "Know-Nothings" a
two-fold—part religious, part political ; an
the ends aimed at, the disfranchisement
adopted citizens, and their exclusion fro.
office, and perpetual war upon the Cathol
religion. With these cardinal principle
the qualifications for membership and brut
crhood are easily determined.
Ist. The applicant for admission to
"wigwam" must be a native born citizen,
native born parents, and not of .the Cathol
religion.
2d. To renounce all previously entertai.
ed political leanings, and co-operate excl
sively with the new order.
3d. To hold neither political, civil, .
religious intercourse with any person w
is a Catholic : but to use all available mea
to abolish the political and religious privi
egos he may at present enjoy.
4th. That he will not vote for any man 1.
office who is not a native citizen of the Uni
ed States, or who may be disposed, if elec
ed, to place any fereigner or Catholic in an
office of emolument
. or trust—the latter n
being, in the opinion of "Know-Nothings
a "credible witness" in any'case save whs.
the oath is administered by his priest.
The "pass-words" and "signs" for admi
sion into the 'wig-warn' of the "Know-Not
ings" are as follows : The applicant raps •
the outer door an infinite number of time
asking at the close, in a low whispering voic
"What meets here to-day 7" (or night, as th
case may be.)' The interrogated immediate
replies, don't know." To which the a.
plicant for admission responds, "I am one,
and forthwith he isadmitted to a second doo
at which he gives four distinct raps, who
the door being opened he whispers to his a
tendant "Thirteen," and then advances i
to the body of the lodge. If disposed
leave before the adjournment of the lodg
the member leaving salutes the Preside
then the Vice President, by first placing h
right hand on his heart, then letting it fa
to his side, whispering to the Guardian •
he retires "thirteen." If a member. requir.
the assistance of a brother when raisin
promiscuously with the public, he pine,
the right forefinger upon the left eyebro.
as if in the act of scratching, looking direod
at the person whose attention he desires toe
tract, if the person be a member, he will r•
spond immediately by a similar sign, , If
be desired to knotv of a stranger weather
is of the initiated, on shaking hands wit
him the middle finger is,,placed upon t•
lowest joint of his finger, next to the ,orris
with a gentle pressure ; when, if he' be
member, he will ask, 'Where did you g
that?' to which ho will rejoinol don't know
and; the querist will end by • replying,
don't know either. "Nothing concernin
the association is to be committed to writin
or published, and' the most.profound silent
and secrecy are to be observed by ever
"Know-Nothing" outside;. but 'every thin
inside the Wigwam is imparted indiscri
inetely to members. Every menaber on se
mission swears by holding up his right hen.
and pledges himself to do all in his pawor
put down foreign influence, and particula.
ly the Catholic religion, and in' no case V
vote for any person for any °ince who'is n.
a "native American citizen ;" and no on:
with some exceptions, is eligible to membe .
ship unless ho and both of his parents a
native born.
.171 1 . - Cour.O'sir Hem. Ir.—A. brutal teach
er , whipped a little boy for pressing th
hand of a little, girl who Sat next to him •
school, after which hp asked the child, , wh
he squeezed the girl's hand I' Because,
said the_ little fellow, , tit looked so pretty
Cotild'at help it."
Eirl'ADDy's • description of a fiddle can
bo beat. "It was as big.as a turkey, and a
mucklo as a goose—he turned it over on i
back; and took a crooked stick and drawl.
it across its belly, and• 0, St: Putrio,. ho
it ded
rr..You are very, stu phi
a, country teacher to'a little boy, eight yea
old. • "You are like' a donkey, and what d
they do to cure them of their stupidity ?
serhey feed them better and kick them less:
said the arch little urchin.
Cir An Irish girl beinglinquired of •
speeting her mistress,. who had gone to
'water-cure. establishment, .replied that he
Jadyehip had “gone to seak."..
' l . l ,Loyo has moro charms than beauty.
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